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What can I say today on the anniversary of John Lennon’s death? Not a whole lot. I will admit that I’ve just started to engross myself in the ways of the Beatles in the past year so am only now seeing the tremendous impact that it must have had on people when he was killed.

What can I say about about John Lennon? I can say that he writes some pretty kickass tunes. I can say that what I know about him, he pushed the envelope of peace. What could he have accomplished in the past 25 years? Probably a LOT. More than you and I could do. Celebrities seem to have more power than us…

I hope that I continue my journey in listening to the Beatles and the works of John Lennon to truly appreciate what he has given us. Happiness is not a warm gun…

iplaying: You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away – The Beatles

Alllright! Going to see Live and Nickelback on February 18, 2006. Thank you presale!

Who am I more anxious for? Man…Live puts on a wicked show…but so does Nickelback.

Plus, if the theory of Live pans out, the next album will be amazing. I have this theory where each alternating album sucks. So they in line for a comeback.

I have grand ideas to make a giant blog with my journal entries for Europe, but in the meantime, here it is in Word document form.

Many of you have already read this, but this is for archival purposes.

Called Bell Mobility….automated messages scrolling by the soundscapes.

What’s this? All the operators are currently busy? Surprise, surprise.

What’s surprising is that I can opt to have THEM call me back when they are available. All it took was me to input my number, hit the pound key, speak my name and hang up.

Granted, this is one minute ago. Who knows if they will ever call back…

iplaying: (some song that I cannot really identify because Benoit did not label the song titles) by Keane. Keane is pretty good actually. I’m digging it.

You can’t beat Beer O’Clock.

February 18, 2006. I swear they came around this same date two years ago. Three years ago? I’ve lost track.

Excellent show. This is rock.

And their new album may be my fave of them.

MASSIVE UPDATE!!! LIVE IS TOURING WITH NICKELBACK! WHOA!

Whoever is interested in going, let me know. I’m ordering tix on Saturday.

iplaying: Radio Song by JET

Tada! Seeing that I would only be teasing you with the potentially non-working Episode #2, I thought I would be nice enough to post the next episode of the escapades of Bob and Jethro.

Download here.
Original Airdate: November 14, 2001
(13.9 MB AVI File)

A story about Episode #2 of the Morning Show.

Being new to the webcam technology, we decided to videotape Episode #2 into an executable file in case people didn’t have any .avi file playback software installed.

So…it worked. A little. Actually, it was pretty horrible. Really small. Remember that this was also filmed back in 2001. I believe it was on a WIN2000 machine. So along comes Windows XP and I’ve never been able play Episode #2 ever again.

I am posting Episode #2 here, but for the life of me, I cannot watch it anymore. If anyone out there can, let me know! Perhaps we can figure out a way to transfer it to a common video format.

A synopsis for the people who can’t see it: Bob and Jethro talk about milking a moose.

Download here.
Original Airdate: November 13, 2001
(2.72 MB, Logitech e-mail video player format – probably won’t work for you. Move onto Episode #3!)

Yay! Row 22 – Floor for the Coldplay concert on St. Patty’s Day. Can I be any more happy?!

I had a meeting this morning so couldn’t personally try and get tix, but when I got back to my office I discovered a string of emails stating that no one could get tix. NOOOO!

Turns out that they were playing a cruel joke on me and let me know the moment before I was going to order a single ticket in the 300 Level.

Excellent. Awesome. I’m stoked.

nowabouttobeplayingintheboxo’music: (insert any freakin’ song) by Coldplay

Here’s a great pic taken by Benoit’s camera phone of Joelle and I at the U2 concert!

Yesterday, I spent the entire day baking 60 loaves of bread for some fundraising activities at work.

Spencer and myself showed up at John’s place at 8:00 sharp to begin the day with no expectations other than John telling us we will work like dogs.

John used to own his bakery and now has his own stone stove in his backyard. We spent the morning learning how to mix the ingredients of bread, the science of it all…kneading the bread, letting it rise, cutting, weighing and then finally placing it into this giant brick oven (aka the haven of heat).

This was a great learning opportunity for me as I had no idea how much work was put into actually baking something. I am a simple man with simple needs. No way would I ever have to make 60 loaves of bread for myself.

We had a great day and even though my feet were sore after standing for 7 hours (felt like I was back at Wal-Mart!), I was impressed with our work accomplished and thought that this may be the greatest thing I’ve done all year.

I encourage everyone to take a workshop in baking bread. It’s interesting and you’ll never go buy another loaf of that sliced stuff in the stores. Bah!